An experimental 1921 Dada walk that mocked guided tours by leading participants to an ordinary Paris churchyard. Manifestos, absurd readings, and chance actions turned a banal site into anti-art, challenging tradition and redefining walking as perfor

Buenos Aires Tour begins with a pane of glass smashed onto a city map, its cracks forming eight arbitrary routes. Guided by chance, texts, recordings, and found objects create an intimate portrait where the historic and the everyday meet.

Hélio Oiticica’s Delirium Ambulatorium explores urban wandering as a creative practice, a “to-and-from” movement without linearity, where walking through the city feeds the mind, transforms urban space into a playground, and allows new artistic ideas to emerge through sensory, bodily, and chance encounters.

In May 1924, Aragon, Breton, Morise, and Vitrac walked from Blois to Romorantin in a spontaneous journey. This “four-person ramble” explored the boundary between conscious and dreamed life, inspiring Breton’s First Surrealist Manifesto.

Komatsu, using a compass, follows the sun’s path across the city from east to west, overcoming obstacles like trees, walls, and streets. The video pauses whenever the route becomes impassable, highlighting the limits of the journey.

In I Walk from the South to the North (2017), Amanda Heng spent two months walking daily in Singapore, relying on strangers’ directions. The project explores chance encounters, urban speed, and differing perspectives on commuting and city life.

Phat Free (1995/1999) by David Hammons shows him kicking a metal bucket down a deserted city sidewalk. The rhythmic, metallic sounds create a musical, improvisational effect, blending street life, jazz, and hip-hop while evoking urban struggle and poetic gesture.

In A Common Third, Simon Pope explores walking as a collaborative, intellectual, and social process. Inviting guests to navigate unfamiliar terrains together, Pope investigates how shared decisions, landscapes, and cultural practices shape both the journey and the experience of being together.

Chance Encounters (1994) by Rut Blees Luxemburg is a nocturnal performance and photographic series exploring women’s presence in the urban night. Cos-playing as executives, Luxemburg engaged strangers, revealing traces, atmospheres, and social currents of London streets.

The Smellfie Kit by Kate McLean is a sensory guide for mapping urban smellscapes. It encourages participants to explore, categorize, and record smells through a structured four-stage process, capturing fleeting, episodic, and background scents of city life.

Direction is a minimalist event-score by George Brecht, inviting participants to observe a directional sign, follow it, then choose a different path. This simple act blurs the line between art and life, exploring control, choice, and navigation in daily life.

In Walking Drawing, Marioni attaches colored pencils to his waist and walks along a long paper, creating wavy, overlapping lines that transform simple movement into a performance-based drawing.